Load more than one Tbird Profile?

Thanks david for the reply! I apologize for my late response it's been one of those weeks. Your reply helps shore up my conception of what I was imagining would be the case. I think I can see how I want to separate my profiles now. Probably a group of 4 email accts to each profile, or with with all accts within each IMAP server. Thanks again for the detailed reply! - Yes I always do IMAP and only store certain items permanent in Local Folders in created subfolders for each acct's Inbox and Sent. From inside Thunderbird say I wanted to create a Local Folders Subfolder for IMAP acct-> Gmail2222 I found I can do this inside Thunderbird by right click->create new folder (subfolder) inside of Local Folders named-> Gmail2222 I then right click and create 2 subfolders inside of Gmail2222 named Inbox & Sent. I can now copy or move any email(s) from the IMAP Inbox or Sent folders to the Inbox or Sent in Local Folders->Gmail2222->Inbox (or Sent). If I look at this in a file manager the files will appears like this, ProfileName\Mail\Local Folders\ has files named-> Gmail2222.msf and-> Gmail2222 <-(this is an mbox file) it has a folder named-> Gmail2222.sbd <-(this shows as an actual folder in a file manager) and inside of it are files named-> Inbox.msf and-> Inbox <-(this is an mbox file) and-> Sent.msf and-> Sent <-(this is an mbox file) It's kinda like deciding what you want and don't want saved and it's all in mbox format.

Thanks for sharing your approach. :)

Thanks for sharing your approach. :)

david I've got a new issue, I've created another profile ok but starting everytime in the Profile Manager is slower than a direct run of Thunderbird. I had thought I could run a specific Profile via the cmd line but I've never done that and I can't seem find a way to get it past the shortcut failure message. Here's what I've done so far, "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -p <-(will start Profile Manager) "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -p 98fra56z.default <-(didn't work) "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -p "98fra56z.default" <-(didn't work) "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe -p 98fra56z.default" <-(didn't work) "C:\Users\Dtm\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\98fra56z.default\ImapMail" <-(goes to folder)

Try setting a desktop icon to thunderbird normally then, rightclick and modify the target with this format, a space or two to the right of thunderbird.exe::

   -profilemgr "c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles\98fra56z.default"

Try setting a desktop icon to thunderbird normally then, rightclick and modify the target with this format, a space or two to the right of thunderbird.exe:: -profilemgr "c:\users\<yourid>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\profiles\98fra56z.default"

Thanks david for the reply, I did this: The normal shortcut to Tbird was this "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" So tried this with one space after .exe, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -profilemgr C:\Users\Dtm\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\98fra56z.default

It did start the Profile Manager with a list Profiles) 

and it also start's slow also and basically does the same thing as this, "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -p

which starts the Profile Manager and lists the Profiles, it also gives an option to chose one in the list to start be default. It looks like this,

Main-default <-(my main Profile) Generic-default <-(Installed profile with no accounts) Proton-Accts <-(New Profile added) [ ] Work offline [ ] Use the selected profile without asking at startup [Start Thunderbird] [Exit]

If I select Main-default and then check [X] Use the selected profile without asking at startup Will that create what I'm looking for?

And then will, "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -p

 still start the Profiles Manager so I can choose the others?
 

Summation there doesn't seem to be away to start a specific Profile of choice just by creating a cmd line. Then I surmise these Portable Thunderbird apps are starting the Profile Manager every time(?)

> Summation there doesn't seem to be away to start a specific Profile of choice just by creating a cmd line.

Sure you can. But I'm not aware that -profilemanager can be shortened as -profilemgr. But you can shorten as -p

Also, you can't put a profile name or path after -profilemanager (or just

-P <profile name> or -p <profile path>

Starting with thunderbird.exe --help | more on Windows will list all the choices.